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Privacy measures
Definition
Measures to determine the susceptibility of data or a dataset to revealing private information. Measures include ability to link private data to an individual, the level of detail or correctness of sensitive information, background information needed to determine private information, etc.
Historical Background
Legal definitions of privacy are generally based on the concept of Individually Identifiable Data. Unfortunately, this concept does not have a clear meaning in the context of many database privacy technologies. The official statistics (census) community has long been concerned with measures for privacy, particularly in the contexts of microdata sets (datasets that represent real data, but obscured in ways to protect privacy) and tabular datasets. Measures have largely been based on the probability that a specific value belongs to a given individual, given the disclosed data. As technologies have been developed to anonymize and analyze private...
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Clifton, C. (2018). Privacy Metrics. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_272
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